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What Advice Would You Give a New Clickbank Vendor?

by shabit87
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Hey Warriors

I'm considering moving one of my products over to Clickbank. I know through them customers can pay using paypal and I don't neccessarily have to deal with paypal (which seems to be a good thing, seeing a lot of people are being limited and shut down).

Any good advice you have to give to someone ready to leap into Clickbank as a vendor?
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  • Profile picture of the author Avery Berman
    I hate clickbank. My advice is to not do it.
    But I guess there isn't many other options for us is there?

    If you're stuck, it's better to take action than fret about what is bad with things, so just do it I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author shabit87
    LOL both you guys say the same thing. Anyone already on Clickbank as a vendor and learned something they wished they'd known before launching thier product there?
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  • Profile picture of the author petelta
    I jumped from clickbank to other product vendors a few months back....best decision ever. I like Digiresults or Ejunkie. Clickbank affiliates offer huge refund rates and poor marketing of your products in my experience.
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    • Profile picture of the author shabit87
      Originally Posted by petelta View Post

      I jumped from clickbank to other product vendors a few months back....best decision ever. I like Digiresults or Ejunkie. Clickbank affiliates offer huge refund rates and poor marketing of your products in my experience.
      Yeah, that was one of my concerns. Any luck getting affiliates with e-junkie and digiresults?
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      • Profile picture of the author petelta
        Originally Posted by shabit87 View Post

        Yeah, that was one of my concerns. Any luck getting affiliates with e-junkie and digiresults?
        Digiresults has produced a few good affiliates. Most of my top affiliates are people I've gone out and searched for though.

        In theory, it sounds great to have thousands of people promoting your product, but you end up only really dealing with a handful on a regular basis that deliver.
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  • Profile picture of the author Avery Berman
    Have you looked at digiresults? It's pretty awesome, but it works on paypal only I believe, which is the drawback. Stupid paypal!
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  • Profile picture of the author xxdksxx
    I have heard many good things about Ejunkie and I am thinking of giving them a try before I try clickbank or others. I think e-junkie is probably better for the fact that most new affiliates go to make money online there for most of the affiliates arent that great and some what spammy.
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    • Profile picture of the author shabit87
      Originally Posted by xxdksxx View Post

      I have heard many good things about Ejunkie and I am thinking of giving them a try before I try clickbank or others. I think e-junkie is probably better for the fact that most new affiliates go to make money online there for most of the affiliates arent that great and some what spammy.
      With e-junkie I believe you pay affiliates with Mass Pay via paypal. I'm looking to get away from using paypal.
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      • Profile picture of the author xxdksxx
        Originally Posted by shabit87 View Post

        With e-junkie I believe you pay affiliates with Mass Pay via paypal. I'm looking to get away from using paypal.
        Oh ok sorry must have misread that somewhere. Honestly I would just try out Clickbank and I believe there is an option to "White List" Affiliates so that you can pick and choose them within Clickbank. There for you could choose the affiliate sites that you want to promote you. And you could give them something like a 50% commission rate or something
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  • Profile picture of the author JaisonG
    What I personally do to make money from Clickbank is that I have a site that does reviews of different products, and usually I get alot of UV's per day and alot of repeating visitors. I try my best to rank for whatever keyword I can and since my site has some authority, I can rank much easier.

    You just need a place to start and then go from there!

    Good Luck
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    • Profile picture of the author shabit87
      Originally Posted by JaisonG View Post

      What I personally do to make money from Clickbank is that I have a site that does reviews of different products, and usually I get alot of UV's per day and alot of repeating visitors. I try my best to rank for whatever keyword I can and since my site has some authority, I can rank much easier.

      You just need a place to start and then go from there!

      Good Luck
      I was talking about using Clickbank as a Vendor not an affiliate. Got any experience as a vendor?
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulMcDonald
    My main gripe with CB as a vendor is that they limit your first product, as well as oto's to $50. You may ask for an increase, but unless you have a track record with them, it will only be increased to about $100. If you have a $197 back end oto, you're basically screwed. I only put my offer on CB because of the vast affiliate pool, and have integrated RAP for the back end. Took some work and some awesome coding by my partner, but we got it done.
    I sure hope this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel LaRusso
    Another vote for looking outside of Clickbank, for the same reasons listed above. Also, when you list a product on Clickbank, it has to go through their manual approval process, which could take days, or could take weeks. With the others, it's instant - when you list your product, it's live.

    Also, fees to list and commissions to Clickbank are much higher than DigiResults and e-junkie.

    As far as PayPal and limiting payment options, couldn't you get PayPal Pro, and that way you'd be able to take credit cards to (still through PayPal though).

    Going through e-junkie sort of automatically protects your product, because you upload it to their server and people download it after they pay.

    My one question, which anyone who could answer can chime in, is, if you go through DigiResults, how do you protect your product and thank you page?
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    • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
      Hi Daniel,

      Originally Posted by Daniel LaRusso View Post

      Another vote for looking outside of Clickbank, for the same reasons listed above. Also, when you list a product on Clickbank, it has to go through their manual approval process, which could take days, or could take weeks. With the others, it's instant - when you list your product, it's live.

      Also, fees to list and commissions to Clickbank are much higher than DigiResults and e-junkie.
      Important to note, is that these are all services and all charge a fee, above and beyond the Paypal or Credit Card fees.

      RAP (Rapid Action Profits mentioned above) is a self-hosted system that interfaces with Paypal for payment processing, and tracks sales and commissions for your affiliates. It also protects download pages on your site, and (for an extra cost) can even protect off site downloads (i.e. from other domains, or from the Amazon S3 service).

      As far as PayPal and limiting payment options, couldn't you get PayPal Pro, and that way you'd be able to take credit cards to (still through PayPal though).
      Paypal Pro is not required for accepting credit cards. Just upgrade to a Premier or Business account at Paypal (both are free upgrades).

      @OP - There is also a free service at RAP Bank*Instant Commissions Vault to list your RAP product(s) and help you find affiliates.
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